"profoundly distraught when he lost him. He had been given a German Shepherd before named ""Prinz"" in 1921, during his years of poverty, but he had been forced to lodge the dog elsewhere. However, she managed to escape and return to him. Hitler, who adored the loyalty and obedience of the dog, thereafter developed a great liking for the breed. He also owned a German Shepherd called ""Muckl"". Before Blondi, Hitler had two German Shepherd dogs, a mother [born 1926] and daughter [born ca. 1930] – both named Blonda. In some photos taken during the 1930s the younger Blonda is"
"and the meaning of his own first name, Adolf (""noble wolf""), and he began to train her. One of Blondi's puppies was reserved for Eva Braun's sister Gretl. Eva sent Gretl a letter containing a photo of Blondi and three of her puppies, Gretl's being indicated with an arrow. During his military service in World War I, Hitler rescued a stray white Fox Terrier named ""Fuchsl"". Hitler had great affection for the dog, and, when he was not on duty at the front, he would spend much of his free time playing with the dog in the barracks. Hitler was"
"Blondi Blondi (1941 – 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the ""Führerbunker"" located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945. Hitler was reportedly very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed in the bunker. According to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection was not shared by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, who preferred her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus and Stasi. Blondi played a role in"
"a unit of SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency. The dog thought to be Blondi was exhumed and photographed by the Soviets. Informational notes Citations Blondi Blondi (1941 – 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the ""Führerbunker"" located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945. Hitler was reportedly very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed in the bunker. According to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection"
"Fritz Tornow Fritz Tornow (born 27 July 1924) was a ""Feldwebel"" in the German Army who served as Adolf Hitler's personal dog-handler. He was one of the last people to occupy the ""Führerbunker"" when it was captured by Soviet Red Army troops. Tornow had the task of taking care of Hitler's beloved German shepherd Blondi, as well as her puppies, and Eva Braun's dogs. Additionally, Tornow had his own pet dachshund. During the last days of World War II, Tornow was one of the few remaining German personnel in the ""Führerbunker"". During the course of 29 April 1945, Hitler learned"
"on the Western Front settled into defensive mode. Fewer messages went by foot or bicycle and more by telephone. Hitler's circle of close army friends shown in the photographs also served at headquarters. They laughed at ""Adi"" for his aversion to smutty stories, and traded their jam rations for his tobacco. In early 1915 Lance Corporal Hitler adopted a stray dog he named Fuchsl (little fox), who was taught many tricks and became his beloved companion. Hitler described him as a ""proper circus dog"". In August 1917 the List Regiment transferred to a quiet sector of the front in Alsace."
"incorrectly labeled as Blondi (in most cases photograph descriptions were written later). In May 1942, Hitler bought another young German Shepherd ""from a minor official in the post office in Ingolstadt"" to keep Blondi company. He called her Bella. According to Traudl Junge, Eva Braun was very fond of her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus and Stasi. She usually kept them away from Blondi. During the course of 29 April 1945, Hitler learned of the death of his ally Benito Mussolini at the hands of Italian partisans. This, along with the fact the Soviet Red Army was closing in"
"Nazi propaganda by portraying Hitler as an animal lover. Dogs like Blondi were coveted as """", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during the Nazi era. On 29 April 1945, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, who died as a result. In March or in early April (likely 4 April) 1945, she had a litter of five puppies with Gerdy Troost's German Shepherd, Harras. Hitler named one of the puppies ""Wulf"", his favorite nickname"
"Braun was very fond of Negus and Stasi, her two Scottish Terrier dogs, and they appear in her home movies. She usually kept them away from Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi. Blondi was killed by one of the entourage on 29 April 1945 when Hitler ordered that one of the cyanide capsules obtained for Braun and Hitler's suicide the next day be tested on the dog. Braun's dogs and Blondi's puppies were shot on 30 April by Hitler's dog handler, Fritz Tornow. In early April 1945, Braun travelled from Munich to Berlin to be with Hitler at the ""Führerbunker"". She refused"
"Reichshund Reichshund (""dog of the Empire"") was an informal term used in Germany for ""Reichskanzler"" Otto von Bismarck's dogs and more generally for similar dogs, particularly Great Danes. Germans became able to own dogs freely as a result of the democratisation following the revolution of 1848. Keeping dogs became increasingly fashionable as the 19th century continued, and people in public life often did so as part of their image. Bismarck reportedly took a blonde Great Dane called Ariel with him when he entered the University of Göttingen in 1832. He continued to keep Great Danes throughout the rest of his"
"named Hektor Linksrhein. Von Stephanitz was so impressed by Hektor's intelligence, strength and obedience that he purchased the dog for 200 German gold marks and immediately formed the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde (Society for the German Shepherd Dog). Von Stephanitz admired the dog for its ""obedient fidelity to [its] master."" Von Stephanitz changed Hektor's name to Horand von Grafrath and included him as the center-point of the society's breeding programs. The dog was then registered under a new breed registry, thus making Horand von Grafrath the first German Shepherd Dog. Many breeders of the time idolized Horand as the goal"
"Hoffmann was allowed to take pictures of Hitler, and Hoffmann himself was forbidden to take candid shots. Once, at the ""Berghof"", Hitler's mountain retreat, Hoffmann took a picture of Hitler playing with his mistress Eva Braun's terrier. Hitler told Hoffmann that he could not publish the picture, because ""A statesman does not permit himself to be photographed with a little dog. A German sheepdog is the only dog worthy of a real man."" Hitler strictly controlled his public image in all respects, having himself photographed in any new suit before he would wear it in public, according to Hoffmann, and"
"Saturn (alligator) Saturn (born 1936) is an American alligator residing in the Moscow Zoo. He is most notable as the subject of an urban myth that he was previously Adolf Hitler's ""pet alligator."" Born in 1936 in the state of Mississippi, United States, Saturn soon was brought to Germany, residing at the Berlin Zoological Garden. It was here his association with Adolf Hitler originated, as Hitler reportedly enjoyed visiting the zoo and especially liked the alligator. However, while Hitler may have viewed Saturn at the zoo, he was never Hitler's personal pet. During World War II, the Berlin zoo was"
"perhaps the Scottish Terrier. Dachshunds have traditionally been viewed as a symbol of Germany. Political cartoonists commonly used the image of the dachshund to ridicule Germany. During World War I the dachshunds' popularity in the United States plummeted because of this association. As a result, they were often called ""liberty hounds"" by their owners similar to ""liberty cabbage"" becoming a term for sauerkraut mostly in North America. The stigma of the association was revived to a lesser extent during World War II, though it was comparatively short-lived. Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were known for keeping"
"Jackie (dog) Jackie was a black-and-white spotted dog, a Dalmatian mix, that became known for the political incident it caused between its owner, Tor Borg, his company, and Nazi Germany. Borg was a Finnish businessman from Tampere who became head of what is now Tamro Group, which had been co-founded by his father. At some point in time, Jackie was trained to raise a single paw whenever the name ""Hitler"" was mentioned, appearing to emulate the Nazi salute. In 1941, shortly before the invasion of the Soviet Union provoked the Continuation War, an anonymous source notified Nazi authorities of Borg"
"his responsibilities all the way to a ruthless mankind-hating nihilist."" Speer states that Hitler's German Shepherd Blondi was ""the only living creature at headquarters who aroused any flicker of human feeling in Hitler."" Yet, Speer states Hitler had ""magnetic power which he could still radiate with virtually undiminished force,"" and ""Hitler continued to prove his instinct for handling people..."" Hitler's routine at Obersalzberg included appearing at 11 a.m. for summaries and reports from Bormann followed by a prolonged afternoon dinner. This was followed by a walk to the teahouse, where Hitler would start endless monologues, occasionally falling asleep in the"
"""Psychology Today"", the Rolf case proved influential in developing the Nazi talking dog programme. Rolf (Airedale terrier) Rolf (died 1919) was an Airedale terrier that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and communicate with humans on an intellectual level. According to Rolf's owner, Paula Morkel of Mannheim, Germany, the dog could communicate with humans by tapping out letters with his paw. He assigned the highest number of taps to less common letters. According to Morkel, the dog was a poet, a bibliophile and a 'speaker' of several languages. In her biography of Rolf she even claimed that"
"animal psychology"" () had been developed by Karl Krall and others to characterize the reasoning abilities of animals, particularly canine philosophers such as the Airedale terrier Rolf, and had many adherents in Germany in the 1920s. Experiments in human-canine telepathy were conducted. In 2011, Jan Bondeson mentioned the Hundesprechschule Asra in his ""Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities"" as an example of Nazi experiments in animal-human communication. He told an interviewer, ""Hitler was himself interested in the prospect of using educated dogs in the war effort, and he advised representatives of the German army to study their usefulness in"
"a nine-month term a year earlier. The following month, a pensioner named Roland T was given a prison term of five months for, amongst other things, training his dog Adolf to raise his right paw in a Nazi salute every time the command ""Heil Hitler!"" was uttered. Modified versions of the salute are sometimes used by neo-Nazis. One such version is the so-called ""Kühnen salute"" with extended thumb, index and middle finger, which is also a criminal offence in Germany. In written correspondence, the number 88 is sometimes used by some neo-Nazis as a substitute for ""Heil Hitler"" (""H"" as"
"War II that the Boxer became popular around the world. Taken home by returning soldiers, they introduced the dog to a wider audience and soon became a favorite as a companion, a show dog, and a guard dog. The German citizen George Alt, a Munich resident, mated a brindle-colored female dog imported from France named ""Flora"" with a local dog of unknown ancestry, known simply as """"Boxer"""", resulting in a fawn-and-white male, named """"Lechner's Box"""" after its owner. This dog was mated with his own dam ""Flora"", and one of its offspring was a female dog called ""Alt's Schecken"". George"
"dog-handler ""Feldwebel"" Fritz Tornow took Blondi's pups and shot them in the garden of the bunker complex on 30 April, after Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. He also killed Eva Braun's two dogs, Frau Gerda Christian's dogs, and his own dachshund. Tornow was later captured by the Allies. Hitler's nurse, Erna Flegel, said in 2005 that Blondi's death had affected the people in the bunker more than Eva Braun's suicide. After the battle in Berlin ended, the remains of Hitler, Braun, and two dogs (thought to be Blondi and her offspring Wulf) were discovered in a shell crater by"
"a wolf-like appearance and prick ears who also were intelligent, had sharp senses and willingness to work and believed that he could create a better working dog that could then be used throughout Germany. He purchased his first dog Hektor Linksrhein in 1899 and changed his name to Horand von Grafrath. Horand was used as the primary breeding stud by Stephanitz and other breeders and is the foundation of the German Shepherd breed as we know it. Stephanitz used the knowledge he had acquired during his years at the Veterinary College and ""...established a ‘grand design’ he wanted breeders to"
"from these pups that all German Shepherds draw a genetic link. It is believed the society accomplished its goal mostly due to Von Stephanitz's strong, uncompromising leadership and he is therefore credited with being the creator of the German Shepherd Dog. The breed was named ""Deutscher Schäferhund"" by von Stephanitz, literally translating to ""German Shepherd Dog"". The breed was so named due to its original purpose of assisting shepherds in herding and protecting sheep. At the time, all other herding dogs in Germany were referred to by this name; they thus became known as ""Altdeutsche Schäferhunde"", or Old German Shepherd"
"Olympics. Müncheberg owned a dachshund (""Dackel""), which his mother had bred, named Seppl. The dog accompanied him from the start of World War II until his death on 23 March 1943. I./JG 234 was equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 in December 1938 and re-designated as I. ""Gruppe"" of Jagdgeschwader 26 ""Schlageter"" (JG 26—26th Fighter Wing), named after Albert Leo Schlageter, on 1 May 1939. Müncheberg was transferred to 11. ""Staffel"" of Lehrgeschwader 2 (11./LG 2—11th squadron of the 2nd Demonstration Wing) in mid-1939. 11.(Nacht)/LG 2 was formed on 1 August 1939 and experimented with night fighting techniques. Only"
"Horand von Grafrath Horand von Grafrath (January 1, 1895 - after 1899) (formerly Hektor Linksrhein) was the first German Shepherd Dog and the genetic basis for modern German Shepherds. A society named the Phylax Society formed in Germany in 1891, with the intention of standardising dog breeds. The society disbanded in 1894, but many of the members continued to exhibit the ideologies promoted by the society. One of these members was Captain Max von Stephanitz, the man now credited with being the father of the German Shepherd Dog. In 1899 while attending a show, von Stephanitz was shown a dog"
"promote a healthy musculoskeletal system. German Shepherds have been featured in a wide range of media. In 1921 Strongheart became one of the earliest canine film stars, and was followed in 1922 by Rin Tin Tin, who is considered the most famous German Shepherd. Both have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. German Shepherds were used in the popular Canadian series ""The Littlest Hobo"". Batman's dog Ace the Bat-Hound appeared in the Batman comic books, initially in 1955, through 1964. Between 1964 and 2007, his appearances were sporadic. A German Shepherd named Inspector Rex is the star of an"
"in a speech on October 9, 1974 in a tribute to William Scranton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Liberty (dog) Honor's Foxfire Liberty Hume (February 8, 1974 – 1984) (AKC Registration Number SB578950) was the Golden Retriever Presidential pet of Betty Ford and Gerald Ford. Liberty was born February 8, 1974 and given to the president as an 8-month-old puppy by his daughter Susan Ford and new White House photographer David Hume Kennerly in the fall of 1974. The breeder of the dark gold pup was Ann (Avis) Friberg of Mount Vernon, Washington. Liberty was frequently photographed with Ford in the Oval"
"were either wolfdogs or partly descended from wolfdogs. In 1899, Max von Stephanitz, an ex-cavalry captain and former student of the Berlin Veterinary College, was attending a dog show when he was shown a dog named Hektor Linksrhein, who was allegedly one-quarter wolf. Renamed Horand von Grafrath, the dog and his progeny were used to create the German Shepherd. Horand became the centre-point of the breeding programs and was bred with dogs belonging to other society members that displayed desirable traits. Although fathering many pups, Horand's most successful was Hektor von Schwaben. Hektor was line bred with another of Horand's"
"Terrier Club (Deutscher Jagdterrier-Club) was founded in 1926, and the dog was warmly embraced in part because it fit well with the rising nationalistic sentiment within Germany at the time. It did not hurt at all that Lutz Heck was a darling of the Nazi regime and counted Hermann Göring among his closest friends. In 1938, a German by the name of Max Thiel, Sr. bought his first Jagdterrier. Thiel hunted with this dog for only a few years before the start of World War II. During the war Thiel lost his dogs, but after the war he settled in"
"of the situation, Borg became worried, as his company relied on German suppliers; his wife, Josefine, was a known anti-Nazi German. Borg was summoned to the German Embassy in Helsinki where he admitted that on a few occasions his wife called the dog “Hitler” and that on a few occasions it did respond with a raised paw. However, he claimed the incident in question had occurred earlier, telling Nazi officials: ""The rumor might emanate from an episode in the summer of 1933 which happened within my family only and which had no ulterior political background whatsoever."" He denied that his"
"a standard was established for each of the five varieties of the Swiss Hound. In 1909, those standards were revised and the total disappearance of the hound of Thurgovie was noted. On 22 January 1933, one single standard was established for the five varieties of the Swiss Hound. Adolf Hitler owned one of these dogs, giving it the name ""The Schweizer Luftwaffe"". The ancient variety, the St. Hubert Jura Hound, is very rare nowadays. This ancient variety is still used for hunting in some areas in France and Canada. The Schweizer Laufhund is of medium size; it has good conformation"
"formally as “Frau” or “Fräulein”, he called her “Wölfin” meaning She-Wolf because of his obsession with wolves. Ms. Wolf and Hitler had a very close relationship. She was often thought of as the best possible source for people to go about Hitler. Wolf was a dedicated Nazi and a trusted member of Hitler's entourage. Wolf lived at the ""Wolfsschanze"" (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, Adolf Hitler's World War II Eastern Front military headquarters from 1941 until he and his staff departed for the last time on 20 November 1944. When Hitler withdrew his headquarters to the ""Führerbunker"" in Berlin in January"
"German Shepherd The German Shepherd (, ) is a breed of medium to large-sized working dog that originated in Germany. In the English language, the breed's officially recognized name is German Shepherd Dog (sometimes abbreviated as ""GSD""). The breed was officially known as the Alsatian in Britain until 1977 when its name was changed back to German Shepherd. The German Shepherd is a relatively new breed of dog, with their origin dating to 1899. As part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability,"